He said fuggedaboudit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Sopranos\u201d showrunner and creator David Chase has confirmed the rumors that James Gandolfini kept \u201cgoing missing\u201d from set while filming the hit crime drama.<\/p>\n
Chase addressed the reports and opened up about his working relationship with the late Tony Soprano actor during an interview with the Guardian<\/a> published Friday.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, fortunately, I wasn\u2019t the one who dealt with him going missing,\u201d he explained. \u201cThat was Ilene Landress, our line manager. She was the one who found out where he was and did everything that needed to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d showrunner David Chase confirmed rumors that James Gandolfini (pictured here in 2001) kept \u201cgoing missing\u201d from set while filming the HBO hit. HBO<\/p>\n Chase (seen here in London last week) opened up about his working relationship with Gandolfini during an interview published Friday. Getty Images<\/p>\n However, the 80-year-old Emmy winner also acknowledged that Gandolfini wasn\u2019t always happy filming \u201cThe Sopranos,\u201d which aired on HBO for six seasons from 1999 to 2007.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, he asked to meet me a couple of times, once on the banks of the Hudson River when he didn\u2019t want to go to work, and he was so unhappy,\u201d Chase told the outlet.<\/p>\n He added, \u201cThis happened three or four times, and we talked and talked and talked, but I was never the one who had to find out where he was.\u201d<\/p>\n Reports that Gandolfini would go missing from the \u201cSopranos\u201d set first surfaced in James Bailey\u2019s 2025 biography of the late actor, \u201cGandolfini: Jim, Tony and the Life of a Legend.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cWell, fortunately, I wasn\u2019t the one who dealt with him going missing,\u201d Chase said of Gandolfini (pictured here filming \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d in March 2007). WireImage<\/p>\n Chase also acknowledged that Gandolfini (seen here filming \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d in October 2003) wasn\u2019t always happy filming the hit crime drama. Getty Images<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Phil Abraham, the show\u2019s cinematographer, told Bailey that Gandolfini\u2019s absences became such a problem that the network started fining the actor hundreds of thousands of dollars every time he didn\u2019t show up to work.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t say I\u2019ve ever been on a show where something like that has gone on, but this was sort of a different beast,\u201d Abraham explained. <\/p>\n \u201cAt a certain point, HBO was fining him 250 grand a day,\u201d the cinematographer added. \u201cAnd he would say,\u00a0\u2018F\u2013k it. I can\u2019t come in to work.\u2019 So we knew then, it\u2019s not just him doing a lot of blow and drinking, and he\u2019s not getting up because he doesn\u2019t want to get up. No, it was deeper than that.\u201d<\/p>\n Like Abraham, Chase acknowledged that Gandolfini\u2019s issues didn\u2019t have anything to do with the show itself.<\/p>\n \u201cHe never refused to do anything,\u201d Chase noted. \u201cHe never said, \u2018I\u2019m gonna go wait in my trailer, and when you\u2019re ready to shoot it the way I want it, come get me.\u2019 That never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n Chase (pictured here in London last week) said that Gandolfini\u2019s issues didn\u2019t have to do with \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d itself. WireImage<\/p>\n \u201cHe never refused to do anything,\u201d the showrunner said of Gandolfini (seen here with Tony Sirico filming the final season of \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d in March 2007). WireImage<\/p>\n Gandolfini, who went on to win three Emmys for his performance as Tony Soprano, tragically died of a heart attack<\/a> in June 2013 while on vacation in Rome<\/a>. He was 51.<\/p>\n He opened up about \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d and how he felt \u201cinsane\u201d during a candid chat with NJ.com<\/a> years earlier in 2001, while between Seasons 3 and 4.<\/p>\n \u201cOh, I\u2019m not sane at all when I\u2019m doing the show,\u201d he said during the interview. \u201cI\u2019m completely insane when I\u2019m doing the show. But my family, my friends \u2013 I\u2019ve got some good friends \u2013 they all help.\u201d<\/p>\n He added, \u201cI got successful at a late age, so I\u2019m under no delusions about what all this is about. Well, I\u2019m sure I have some delusions. But you know, basically it\u2019s a job. You work hard, and you get tired a little bit, but that\u2019s all it is.\u201d<\/p>\n Gandolfini (pictured filming \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d in March 2007) died of a heart attack in Italy in June 2013 at the age of 51. Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201cOh, I\u2019m not sane at all when I\u2019m doing the show,\u201d Gandolfini (seen here during Season 3 of \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d) said during a 2001 interview. \u201cI\u2019m completely insane when I\u2019m doing the show.\u201d HBO<\/p>\n Mark Kamine, who worked as a location scout on \u201cThe Sopranos,\u201d explained how Gandolfini\u2019s personal demons caused chaos<\/a> during the final seasons of\u00a0the hit HBO show in his controversial book<\/a>, \u201cOn Locations: Lessons Learned from My Life On Set with The Sopranos and in the Film Industry.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am at the hotel bar when the crew member closest to Jim asks if I want to go down to Atlantic City with Jim and a few others. It\u2019s over an hour away. I decline,\u201d Kamine writes of one Season 5 incident. \u201cThe next morning, I\u2019m not surprised when Jim cannot be roused.\u201d<\/p>\n Kamine went on to write that Gandolfini eventually showed up to set \u201ccursing his way through his half-learned lines, doing take after take, drinking coffees and bottles of water, alternatively sheepish and churlish, the way he always is when he f\u2013ks up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said fuggedaboudit. \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d showrunner and creator David Chase has confirmed the rumors that James Gandolfini kept…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":693109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[568,185,172,171,5560,290207,63856,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-693108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity-news","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hbo","13":"tag-james-gandolfini","14":"tag-the-sopranos","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116319766197992665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}